Chen Zhen was fined a total of 247.48 million yuan for tax evasion and retrieval.

Recently, the Third Inspection Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation lawfully dealt with the tax evasion case of the online car reviewer Chen Zhen. It was found that from 2021 to 2023, Chen Zhen evaded a total of 1.1867 million yuan in personal income tax through methods such as concealing income, changing the nature of income, and making false declarations. In November 2025, based on the "Tax Collection and Management Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Individual Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China," and other relevant laws and regulations, the Third Inspection Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation made a decision to recover the tax, impose a late payment fine, and impose a fine totaling 2.4748 million yuan. Currently, the tax arrears, late payment fines, and fines involved have all been collected. The person in charge of the Third Inspection Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation stated that evading or underpaying taxes through methods such as concealing income, changing the nature of income, and making false declarations constitutes tax evasion behavior as stipulated by tax regulations. Paying taxes in accordance with the law is the obligation that taxpayers should fulfill. The tax authorities will continue to implement various tax and fee preferential policies, continuously optimize tax and fee services, and resolutely safeguard national tax security, and maintain the fair economic and tax order under the rule of law.